Spring 2012 Editorial
Editorial Spring 2012
Studies enters its second century in the wake of the recent publication of the 2011 census findings. A host of centenaries now beckons: Home Rule legislation, the Great War, the 1916 rebellion, and more. 'All commemorations serve an educational purpose', as John Bruton pointed out when launching Bryan Fanning's commemorative volume, An Irish Century: Studies 1912-2012. What have we learnt? Who are we becoming? What is our way forward? Read full editorial...
An Irish Century: Studies 1912-2012, by Brian Fanning. www.ucdpress.ie
The Jesuits and Irish Scholarship
Article by Alan Titley from Spring 2012 issue
One of the most extraordinary things about the history of Ireland and of its literature is that most people, scholars included, hadn’t the least clue about the latter until the very end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. Irish literature had been preserved in manuscripts or in the oral tradition, but very few printed books had been published in the language until the end of the nineteenth century. Most people of a learned bent had not heard of Aogán Ó Rathaille, or of Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin, or of Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, or of the great corpus of bardic poetry, the poetry of the learned classes between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries.
Spring 2012 issue
The Spring 2012 issue, titled 'Irish Studies', leads with 'The Jesuits and Irish Scholarship', by Alan Titley, Emeritus Professor of Modern Irish in University College, Cork. Brian Murphy, OSB and Michael Paul Gallagher, SJ also contribute as well as former Taoiseach John Bruton, when he formally launched An Irish Century: Studies 1912-2012, by Professor Bryan Fanning, in Newman House.
From the Archives: Studies commemorations
- A New Irish Identity
- Studies 1912-1962
- Irish Writing
- 75 Years
- 100 years
A NEW IRISH IDENTITY
[Studies, Vol. 75, No. 300 (Winter, 1986), pp. 357-360]
Editorial
It was a bold undertaking for a group of professors and graduates of the National University of Ireland to launch a new Journal in 1912 dedicated to serious intellectual analysis of major issues in letters, Philosophical Subjects and the Sciences. Given the pressures on Irish journals it is something of a pleasant surprise that, seventy-five years later, we are able to launch the 300th issue of Studies. It is a good reason to celebrate and even to engage in a little gentle trumpet blowing...
STUDIES 1912-1962
[Studies, Vol. 51, No. 201 (Spring 1962), pp. 1-8]
by James Meenan
In February 1911 the last issue of the New Ireland Review appeared. A valedictory note recalled seventeen years of successful existence and added that: 'we are content to have held the field until larger and better-equipped forces could occupy it'. The metaphor seems unduly martial for so pacific an age, but it was no less justified than the pride of survival that it expressed. The New Ireland, like the Lyceum before it, was a phase in the University struggle. Both journals looked back to Newman's Atlantis. They were a portion of the Jesuit achievement in the old University College. Now, in 1911, that College had been reconstructed into something that approached Catholic claims. It had passed out of Jesuit control (though fifty years later the new College still seems permeated by the memory of what went before). But there was still work to do...
FIFTY YEARS OF IRISH WRITING
[Studies, Vol. 51, No. 201 (Spring 1962), pp. 93-105]
by Seán O'Faoláin
When the editor of Studies kindly invited me to write an article on the fortunes of Irish literature over the past fifty years I presumed that the main interest of anything I might have to say would lie in the fact that I am an Irish writer who was born in 1900, which implies, I supopose, that, within the limitations of my personal oddities and idiosyncrasies, what I here say cannot fail to be, at any rate to some degree, representative of the views of the generation after Yeats...
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF STUDIES
[Studies, Vol. 75, No. 300, Winter 1986]
by Brian P. Kennedy
It is a remarkable achievement for any periodical to reach its 300th issue after seventy-five years of continuous publication. But Studies has long been acknowledged as a distinguished contributor to Irish intellectual life. Seán Lemass held the view that Studies had provided 'articles forming the basis of discussion which has sometimes determined the future of our country. A review of the importance and status of Studies...is important to the development of the nation'...
Studies was launched in March 1912. It was, and still is, published by the Jesuits. A catholic intent was signalled by its subtitle: An Irish Quarterly Review of Letters, Philosophy and Science.
The stated object of Studies, set out in a foreword to the first issue, was to ‘give publicity to work of a scholarly type, extending over many important branches of study, and appealing to a wider circle of cultured readers than strictly specialist journals could be expected to reach’.
